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One-time Digger Peter Coyote discusses his new book, "Smothered by Riches". The voice of Ken Burns' documentaries, Coyote has lived many lives since his days on the streets of San Francisco.
https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/bonus-smothered-by-riches-feat

Center for Puerto Rican Studies, NYC

June 10 @ 9:00 am – June 11 @ 8:30 pm EDT

Save the date for this 2-day symposium that seeks to bring together scholars, artists, and activists from the inhabited US territories and their diasporas to learn about shared struggles, relational coalitions, and expand networks of solidarity.

For over a century, the U.S. federal government has defined the relationship of U.S. territories to the political, social, and economic structure of the United States. Political relationships established through federal legislation, judicial decisions, and executive decisions continue to contour the lives of populations and the sovereignty of nations rendered subordinate. As fiscal crises, mass outmigrations, health challenges, climate change, and other challenges continue to affect the peoples of U.S. territories, longstanding questions concerning sovereignty, justice, and freedom have remained at the fore.
https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/a-sea-of-islands-u-s-territories-in-relation/

Sign to support the radical scholars at Essex now being made redundant.
https://sites.google.com/view/mmpublicstatement/home
Writes
stevphen.shukaitis
The University of Essex has informed me and 11 others in my department that we are being made redundant. I’ve worked here for 18 years, so it’s hard to take – especially given that we’ve done all the things universities usually say they value: internationally recognized research, innovative teaching, public engagement, interdisciplinary collaboration, and work connected to wider social questions....
...Over many years, the Group has built a distinctive intellectual environment bringing critical questions of work, democracy, inequality, sustainability, technology, and collective life into business and management education. Through initiatives such as the Centre for Commons Organizing and the COVER Research Centre, colleagues have developed teaching and research exploring cooperation, mutual aid, labour rights, democratic governance, ecological sustainability, and alternatives to narrow market-driven understandings of economic life....

RASH: Una Historia Oral de los Skinheads Rojos y Anarquistas de Nueva York
XLT from ENG original, linked
https://www.revuelta.org/articulos/rash-una-historia-oral-de-los-skinheads-rojos-y-anarquistas-de-nueva-york/

CFP
Université de Montpellier Paul-Valéry
ReSO (Recherches sur les Suds et les Orients)
Colloque international / Convegno international / International Conference / Congreso internacional
Juillet 2027
Sacco & Vanzetti 1927-2027
Appel à communication / Call for Papers / Convocatoria
CALL IN FR / IT / ENG
Conference languages: French, Italian, English, Spanish
The Conference will take place at Montpellier Paul-Valéry University in July 2027 (three days to be determined between the 1st and the 10th).

Abstracts should be sent before 15th April 2026.
(Although this notice arrived via list-serve ra-l@umpv.fr on that date!)
https://reso.www.univ-montp3.fr/fr/colloques-et-s%C3%A9minaires/manifestations-2026/appels-%C3%A0-communications-2026/appel-%C3%A0

Stephen Zacks interviews a curator of “Groups and Other Artistic Uprisings” Feb-Aug 2026 at UNAM in Mexico City. This massive show surveys “Networks and Collectivities” of political artists in Mexico, 1976-1985. Inc. link to catalog PDF.
https://artgangs.blogspot.com/2026/04/creative-reckonings-with-dark-past.html

Posting these kinds of cool graphics earned me a permanent ban on Facebook!
"Information wants to be free."
The slogan behind this insurrectionist anarchist image is, 'All you have to do was pay us enough to live."

A VERY TIMELY bit from the nettime list-serve -- I didn't write this, but....

"Hope this isn't a spoiler...
but "AI Sychopancy" is a really juicy term,
gonna borrow and expand on that for sure !

"And on confronting all the AI B.S. ...
and discussing the various ways of derailing that whole shit_train

"this new conference called
Cable Of Resistance is ON
and is very impressive...

https://cableresist.de/

*some* livestreams available...
2day and 2mrw...

This is truly beautiful... for us.
There's been much criticism of impromptu rock "sculptures" on beaches as the disturb animal habitat. Perhaps exceptions should be made for extraordinary works like this one!

A touching story of interpecies cooperation....
Hero rat who sniffed out over 100 land mines is honored with giant statue

“Magawa was one of the best rats we’ve ever had,” said Michael Raine, who works for Apopo, a nonprofit that trains animals to detect land mines.

https://wapo.st/4viNmik

NYC -- MoRUS -- Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space, the squatters' institution -- hosts a film series for Lower East Side History month in May.
Includes a rare appearance by Clayton Patterson talking about his important video record of the 1988 Tompkins Square Park police riot.
#Squatting #LowerEastSide

Ciarra Ross, The Undertow: Meditations on Black Queer Interiority -- constructed the Assata Shakur poetry archive.
https://www.are.na/ciarra-ross/assata-shakur-1947-2025-poetry-archive

RE: @firestorm@kolektiva.social

Paging John Duda....
https://www.democracycollaborative.org/john-duda